Nunnery


a brothel.

etymology: since the elizabethan era, nun has been slang for a prost-tute (ref. william faulkner, “requiem for a nun”), and a nunnery referred to a brothel.

see also: abbess, bordello, brothel, nun, wh-r-house
“polly adler, in her memoir ‘a house is not a home,’ tells of her time as the abbess of the big town’s poshest nunnery.”

walter winch-ll, 1953
1. slang for “wh-r-house” in the times of shakespeare
2. a convent
“get thee to a nunnery!”
1: slang term for convent; itz wea da nun’s crib at.
2: the act of living your life in poverty, chast-ty and obedience. to act like a nun.
1:”it’s right past that nunnery on the left.”
2:”we don’t take kindly to nunnery ’round here!”

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